Marrying a Real Shadow

15. Anna's Secret

Anna slammed the door of her room hard. Kenda just so disturbed his mind. Just a few seconds from now she felt proud and complacent about what she considered to be love. Apparently all is wrong, it traps and hurts. There is no reason, it is all what it is and the bitter reality that must be swallowed whole.

Anna accidentally locked her room for the whole day in the room and no one bothered her. He sat in a chair directly facing the window, from there the entire courtyard of the filla was clearly visible. The room was deliberately chosen as a strategic place with the best views so that it can be a bit of a cure for his psychological condition that is sometimes disturbed.

Tock-tock.

From the outside, there was a knock that deliberately generated its volume. He was indifferent as if he had not heard that knock. But the knock slowly loud even sounded like it was about to break down the sturdy door of his room.

"Yes...!" anna's yelling stopped the increasingly loud sound of a break.

He was stunned to see the figure in front of him.

"Down down" said his stepmother coldly.

Anna gulped her saliva, it had been a long time that her cruel stepmother's face had not been seen. He shuddered then quickly followed his footsteps to descend to the lower floor. Afraid if that scary face glared at him.

He was stunned for a moment to see the crowd below and He also knew whose entourage it was. Her memory takes her to the face of the last time detective who looked at her suspiciously right in front of her room.

"Anna, answer the question as you please" whispered her mother before passing by and sitting on the sofa.

It felt a strange streak flaring up, the atmosphere tense and horror.

"We found your handprints on the body of the waiter who died yesterday" the detective explained.

"Servant? Wh who? I don't know which servant you mean" Anna replied with a frown.

Everyone seemed tense including the important guests Meihan's father and his mother who were watching. The presence of the detective group was very sudden and without information.

"Where were you when it happened that night?" ask the detective again.

"What events? I only remember when I was going to sleep...."

Anna did not continue her words, she briefly caught yet another strange signal that flowed in unison startling the nerves of her brain that were not yet ready. He remembered but the memories mixed and suddenly made a red liquid come out of his nose.

"I slept that night and didn't know what was going on" he said half stammering. Somehow that line of denial came out of his mouth. It confirmed that he saw something terrible in his memory.

[I can't stop breathing]

He regulated his slightly decapitated breath, but the intense tremors that were out of nowhere managed to make him sit limp. Anna briefly recalled the face of the servant girl pleading in front of her.

"Sir, Anna is sick, she should not be surprised, scared, or anything. There was no one in this country who did not know Anna's background to her trauma. On what grounds are you accusing Anna of doing that?" her stepmother Anna tried to defend her.

"We have evidence as well as an arrest warrant. For a while Anna has to come with us" he said steadily.

"Where are you taking it?" asked Anna's stepmother with wide eyes.

"She has to come with us to the police station" the detective said as he rubbed Anna's nearly helpless body.

Rafah stood up from his seat to do anything so that the detective did not bring Anna at will.

"Don't you see Anna almost fainted?!" yell Stepmom Anna emotion.

"Anna is now the only witness and possibly the suspect. He has to come with us, "the detective is clumsy on his stand. The bribe money did not succeed in shaking his sense of justice.

"How much do you want? Didn't your boss give you a severance to keep your mouth shut?" ask Anna's stepmother who is also Rafah's biological mother in a tone that was deliberately pressed several times.

"I would not feed my wife and children with that illicit money, you know!" said the detective while spitting on the floor feeling disgusted.

Anna was sick of hearing that, she knew how worthless she was behind her ever-better reputation. A sense of disgust crept tickling all over his body.

"I killed him" he said without hesitation, stopping the debate.

Momentary silence. The sound of a heartbeat in tandem with the seconds of the hour momentarily filled the void. The tightness in his chest momentarily turned into spirit. Anna stood up steadily and then repeated her sentence.

"I killed him" he said, handcuffing his hand.

The detective stared in astonishment at him, the whole room was pangled. They had just heard Anna's sudden confession to the tragic murder three days ago. How could a girl as weak as him be able to do that.

The detective gulps his saliva and grabs the handcuffs and handcuffs Anna, but Rafah pulls the handcuffs and slams them to the floor.

"Don't you already know Anna's psychic condition? What is the power of a girl as weak as Anna to commit such a stragic murder? To lift his tablespoon alone he is almost unable, what else to kill people tragically. Are there no other suspects that could be investigated besides Anna?" snapped Rafah with a dead red face.

Anna just smiled symmetrically, her smile getting wider until it looked creepy. Rafah approached him and clasped his hand tightly.

"I'm here, you don't fear Anna, lest you lose your sanity" he whispered.

"He's admitted it, I'm just doing my job" the detective said, wiping the sweat off his mind.

"I don't want to see any more bloodshed in front of me, I beg you!" anna slowly shouted.

Seeing conditions that seem not to be finished unless the detective is dead or killed, the butler opens his voice and confesses that he is the perpetrator of the murder.

"I did it, the waiter was stubborn. He stole several times and committed indecent acts with other male servants. I taught him some lessons but the waiter willingly jumped off the balcony feeling like he didn't want to be bruised" explained the butler, looking up at the incident that night.

Meihan's father looks amazed, he does not believe the butler and his lover willingly volunteered to be brought by the group of justice-hungry detectives.

"I'm also sick of seeing blood growth" he said.

The butler took the handcuffs lying on the ceramic floor and handcuffed his own hands. "I'm ready to go to trial" he said.

The scared face cannot be hidden by the detective when he heard the bloodshed, some people who joined his entourage also held their trembling legs ready to run in case there was a threat.

"You finally confess too." Anna said while smiling demon.

Not to mention the tension there, Anna's horror speech made everyone only able to swallow.

"I knew you wouldn't let me in and languish in that disgusting cell because of the mess you made yourself." Highlighting Anna's eyes was already uncontrollable, she momentarily removed the usual innocence and purity that characterised her face.

Rafah clasped his hand. Anna can't show her another self. The secret was enough he, his mother, and the butler knew.

"If you don't want to take me now then your life is at stake," said the butler, looking at Anna, who was bleeding from her nose with her own hands, making the blood fill half of her face

Some of the people standing beside the detective quickly caught the butler Chief and soon probably got out of there. There was no chance, if they died there would be no one to bury their corpses maybe even they would be lost without a search. There was no point fighting those two big families, only the crazy detective who handled the case dared to bash his own head against the wall.

"Well, hmm...." The detective followed the steps of his men out of the fila, dazed with fear in his heart. However death was not an option, he still had children and a wife who depended on him.

"Hurry and call the doctor" cried Rafah.

Anna's eyes were already reddened, her face growing more and more horror with bloodstains continuously coming out of her nose.

While Meihan did not know the incident, he languished in the room accompanied by Kenda who continued to tease and persuade him to be satisfied.